Description: The USDA Forest Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are analyzing a range of strategies for controlling gypsy moth damage to forests and trees in the United States.
Web Link: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/wv/eis/

Location: UNIT - All Districts-level Units. STATE - All States. COUNTY - All Counties. Nationwide.

Description: The Department of Agriculture proposes to promulgate a new planning rule, which will set out the process for development, revision, and amendment of National Forest System land management plans.
Web Link: http://www.fs.usda.gov/planningrule

Location: UNIT - All Districts-level Units. STATE - All States. COUNTY - All Counties. Agency-wide Rule.

Nationwide Aerial Application of Fire Retardant on National Forest System Lands.EIS

Description: The Forest Service will prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for the continued nationwide aerial application of fire retardant on National Forest System lands.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/retardant/index.html

Location: UNIT - All Districts-level Units. STATE - All States. COUNTY - All Counties. Nationwide.

Description: Issuance of a 5-year special use authorization to a concessionaire for operation & maintenance of 56 government-owned developed recreation sites. There are no changes to the scope or intensity of authorized activities from the preceding authorization

Description: The proposed action would reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health through silvicultural treatments on approximately 1656 acres. Currently a supplemental EIS is being prepared in response to the appeal decision reversing Oct 2009 decision.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=23646

Location: UNIT - Hayfork Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Trinity. LEGAL - T29N, R11W sections 4-9, T29N, R12W sections 1,2, and 12, T30N, R11W sections 31 and 32, and T30N, R12W sections 25, 26, 35, and 36 M.D.M. The project area is an estimate 10 air miles south of Hayfork, California and 3 miles east of the Post Mountain, California. The Post Mountain community is listed as an Urban Wildland Interface.

Description: Authorization for sampling and mining of high bench alluvial gravels by open pit on the Blue Bird Consolidated Mine. Processing approx. 1,500 cubic yards of placer gravels, reclamation, and re-establishment of native vegetation.

Description: Red fir trees are deteriorating due to reduced forest health. Project includes treatment of approx 1150 acres to maintain red fir as a viable species while improving forest health & fire resilience on the South Fork ridge top. See other project info

Location: UNIT - Hayfork Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Humboldt, Trinity. LEGAL - T3N, R5E, S11,14,23,25,36; T3N, R6E, S31; T2N, R6E, S6,8,21,27,28,33; T1N, R6E, S3,4,10,11,14; HM. Along National Forest System Road 4N12 and 6N01 from Buck Springs north to the Blake Mountain area (estimated 17 miles long, up to 1.5 miles wide), averaging about six miles west of Hyampom, CA.

Description: Thinning/other silvicultural and fuels treatments of approximately 5600 acres of forested stands within the Algoma Late Successional Reserve. Application of a borax to cut stumps 14 inches and larger. Some new road construction.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=21152

Location: UNIT - McCloud Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Siskiyou. LEGAL - T39N,R1W and 1W; T40N, R1E and 1W, MDB&M. Approximatley 10 miles east of the Town of McCloud. In MA 2 and 10, MP VII (LSR) and IX (RR).

Bartle & McCloud/Hambone Range Management ProjectEA

- Grazing management

Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 01/2012

Expected:03/2013

06/2013

Philip Brownsey530-226-2432pbrownsey@fs.fed.us

Description: The decision to be made is whether or not to authorize grazing and implement allotment management plans on the Bartle and McCloud/Hambone Allotments, in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and standards and guidelines.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=33628

Description: Improve forest health and restore fire-adapted ecosystem characteristics on approx. 3,000 acres in and adjacent to the Harris Mtn. LSR. Ground and ladder fuels would be reduced and forested stands would be thinned to yield a fire-resilient forest.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=30324

Description: Proposal to authorize a small gold mining operation on the site of an abandoned mine. Less than 1/2 mile of overgrown trail will be cleared to access the site. Operations may include use of a small backhoe, tractor, sluice box, and gas pump.

Description: Approximately 3000 acres of commercial thinning, Green Tree Retention and fuels reduction within the urban interface of the town of McCloud and the Mt. Shasta Forest Subdivision, removing encroaching conifers from meadows and application of Borax.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=4633

Location: UNIT - McCloud Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Siskiyou. LEGAL - T41N, R3E & T42N, R3E, various sections. East side of the McCloud Flats on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, approximately 30 air miles northeast of the community of McCloud, California.

Description: The decision to be made is whether or not to reauthorize grazing, issue a term grazing permit, and implement allotment management plans on one cattle allotment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and standards and guidelines.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=31554

Description: precommercial thinning, pruning and mastication of brush in approximately 2500 acres of conifer tree plantation and creation of a shaded fuelbreak along Highway 97 and the Military Pass Road

Location: UNIT - Mt. Shasta Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Siskiyou. LEGAL - T42N,R3 and 4 W, MDB&M. Five to 10 miles northeast of the city of Weed, CA.

Description: Shasta County D.P.W. has requested permission for reauthorization of their existing permit and upgrade of a portion of the existing waterlines to improve the system which supplies water to residential users in the Jones Valley-Silverthorn area.

Description: Reduction of fuels build up on National Forest System lands in and around communities and infrastructure, and protection of municipal watersheds through fuels reduction. Includes a non-significant Forest Plan amendment.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=30238

Description: Removal of non-native Scotch, French & Spanish brooms using an integrated approach on about 112 acres of National Forest System lands. A combination of treatments, including herbicide, manual cutting, hand pulling & prescribed fire will be used.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=31038

Location: UNIT - Shasta Lake Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Shasta. LEGAL - Township 34 North, Range 4 West, Sections 20, 21, 28 and 29, Mt. Diablo base and meridian. About 13 air miles north of the City of Redding, within the Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area near Packers Bay.

Description: Issuance of a 20-year special use authorization to Trinity Lakes Resorts & Marinas to replace their existing authorization that was issued in 2001. Authorization will include hardening of existing dirt parking areas.

Description: A new trail will be constructed to bypass private property and maintain public access to the Weaver Basin Trail System. Construction will be done entirely by hand, and will be approximately one mile in length.

Location: UNIT - Yolla Bolla Ranger District. STATE - California. COUNTY - Trinity. LEGAL - Townships 29 and 30 North, Ranges 10 and 11 West, Mount Diablo Meridian,. Immediately north and east of the community of Wildwood, California and south of Chanchelulla Wilderness.

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